AERS would like to congratulate Mr. Ian Stewart, Q.C., Chairman of the Board, on being presented a University of Victoria Legacy Award for his contributions as a Builder in the Sport category. Mr. Stewart has been with AERS for several years, but his charitable contributions to the Victoria and UVic communities run much deeper.
From the [...]
Terapeak, the marketplace leader in eBay research, continues to grow globally.
AERS is proud to announce a new partnership with 500RPM, a Japanese service provider for Japan-based eBay sellers. Known predominately for translation and eBay assistance solutions, 500RPM will soon provide a locally-translated Terapeak tool, along with a dedicated, Japan-based support team.
A big part of the [...]
Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the past year with the economic recession claiming many victims across several industries and demographics, the video gaming industry has preformed robustly. According to recent reports released by NPD and Bloomberg, this has changed. Yesterday, Bloomberg published an article entitled Video Games Fell Most in 9 Years Last [...]
Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada
It has been two weeks since the launch of the highly anticipated Toshiba TG01. We have continued to keep on an eye on eBay USA trends for this device as a potential future indicator for its overall success. While initially appearing in Europe, in the past two weeks some listings for the [...]
Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada
In the latest look at video game trends on eBay USA, we at AERS have been using Advanced technology to get our expansive database to tell us a story. This time, the focus is on eBay USA top five video games sold by volume and revenue for the month [...]
Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada
Recently on this blog, we covered the latest trends for HP and Dell in ecommerce sales. Demand for these products has been surging on the world’s largest ecommerce site.
From the dates of April 1 2009 to June 29 2009, the top three models by volume for both manufacturers [...]
Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc
Victoria, BC, Canada
Launching in the UK with Orange on July 10, 2009, the new TG01 will be the world’s first smartphone to be using the new Quantum processor with the dizzying processing speed of 1GHz. Will it succeed in the market? eBay is a common venue for early technology developers, so [...]
Google had an outage from 10:15AM-12:15AM this morning affecting about 14% of their global users, which on any other web service might warrant a TechCrunch article or two, some gripes about uptime, and a bunch of #FAIL tags on Twitter. Unfortunately, though, when you’re Google, your outages have a far bigger reach — even when [...]
At AERS we’re really into cutting-edge visualization techniques, so we’re always on the lookout for cool ways to express complex data. Jason R. Bailey has totally gotten our attention with this movable visualization of every shot from the 2007-2008 NBA season. Wow.
If you find yourself on a basketball court next weekend and can’t decide where [...]
Advanced E-commerce Research Systems, Inc.
Victoria, BC, Canada
January sales figures released by Avian Research revealed a decline in iPhone sales while Blackberry experienced an increase. Online trends in eBay could eventually reflect this offline trend with recent figures released from Terapeak on smart phone sales. Despite being currently outnumber by iPhones in the ecommerce market, the [...]
Recognized by University of Victoria for business innovation in research
VICTORIA – AERS founder Anthony Sukow was on hand to receive the University of Victoria’s annual Craigdarroch Research Award on behalf of himself and his brother and co-founder Andrew Sukow last week. As graduates of the University, both founders were gratified to receive the University of [...]
Women prefer cheap & simple portable MP3 players
Yesterday, Apple revealed a smaller and simpler iPod Shuffle amid great hoopla. The new product features more storage, a much smaller form factor, and a feature called “VoiceOver” which rather usefully, given the lack of a screen, tells you what song is playing and who the artist is. [...]
